2nd day of testimony in Pyne murder trial focuses on suspect's whereabouts

5:52 PM,
Nov. 19, 2012

Jeffrey Pyne, 22, faces life in prison if found guilty in his mother's murder.

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In the days after his wife was bludgeoned and stabbed to death in the family's Highland Township garage, Bernard Pyne noticed items missing: two boards, a screwdriver and a box cutter.

Prosecutors contend his son, Jeffrey Pyne, used at least one of the boards -- likely a 2-by-4-- to crush Ruth Pyne's skull and break one of her arms on May 27, 2011. The boards and tools haven't been recovered.

Oakland County Sheriff's Detective Steve Zdravaovski told jurors today, in the second day of Jeffrey Pyne's murder trial, that Bernard Pyne called him to the family's home in early June 2011 to point out ...